Junior Merchandise Planner

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada SSENSE Full time

Company Description

SSENSE (pronounced [**es**-_uh_ns]) is a global technology platform operating at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce. Headquartered in Montreal, it features a mix of established and emerging luxury brands across womenswear, menswear, kidswear, and Everything Else.

SSENSE has garnered critical acclaim as both an e-commerce engine and a producer of cultural content, generating an average of 100 million monthly page views. Approximately 80% of its audience is between the ages of 18 to 40. It is privately held and has achieved high double digit annual growth and profitability since its inception.

**Job Description**:
Reporting to the Merchandise Planning Manager, the Junior Merchandise Planner is responsible for working in collaboration with Merchandise Planners to ensure sales and gross margin goals are met through well planned inventory and optimizing growth by creating and executing on brand plans. The Junior Merchandise Planner will be focused on maximizing profitability and capturing global sales, through analysis and effective stock management using strong follow-up and collaboration capabilities in a fast-growing company.

**Responsibilities**

**Merchandise Planning Operations
- 90%**
- In collaboration with Merchandise Planners, create and maintain sales, gross margin and inventory plans for a portfolio of brands to achieve set KPI's
- Work in collaboration with Merchandise Planners in shaping best practices and as a sounding board for analysis
- Create supporting analysis for all high investment brands in order to identify areas of opportunities
- Quantify carryover styles in collaboration with Buyers by using historical data and target KPIs
- Review purchase orders placed by the Buying team and, in collaboration with Merchandise Planners, recommend strategic actions to maximize sales and margin, optimize inventory, and mitigate risk
- Participate to the budget review meetings and present the financial strategy by brands to the Buying team as well as top management
- Maintain in-season planning forecasts for a portfolio of brands driven from historical data and promotional activities to provide the most accurate view on seasonal performance
- Participate in the team weekly performance review; identifying missed opportunities and growth drivers and present the outcome to the team
- Maintain a set of daily, weekly and monthly reports
- Work collaboratively with Buyers to develop brand strategies based on past performance in order to meet plan
- On a biannual basis support the migration of all seasonal planning templates in Gsheet
- Participate to ad hoc analysis based on the different business needs to drive insights and recommend a course of action

**Projects & Initiatives - 10%**
- Support peers on the Merchandise Planning team to enhance tools and processes that support planning integrity allowing for flexibility and innovation
- Support the development of additional reports to support business needs

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or a related field
- A minimum of 2-3 years of work related experience, preferably in the retail, e-commerce industry
- Knowledge of luxury, retail or e-commerce, an asset
- Advanced skills using Microsoft Excel and Gsheet
- Knowledge of Tableau, an asset
- Excellent French and English written and verbal communication skills

**Skills**
- Highly analytical and detailed oriented
- Creative thinker with excellent problem solving abilities
- Strong retail math, financial planning and forecasting skills
- Strong sense of teamwork and ability to multitask
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced and high growth environment


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